Taylor Capital Management

Taylor Capital Management is an independent registered investment adviser operating as a single‑advisor firm that delivers wrap-fee asset management to individual investors and to less-common client types for its peer group, including corporations, charitable organizations, and pension or profit‑sharing plans. The firm reports managing about $142.9 million in discretionary assets for roughly 200 clients through its fee-based wrap platforms.

Advisory services are provided solely through the firm’s wrap program hosted by Raymond James, with an Ambassador Platform focused on individual securities (account minimum applies) and an Independent Clearing Account Platform (ICAP) that emphasizes model mutual‑fund portfolios and has no minimum. Portfolios are managed on a discretionary basis with regular supervision and may include use of margin borrowing and derivatives (including options, with the firm primarily acting as an option seller/writer); the firm also offers a performance‑based fee arrangement for qualified clients that includes a base advisory fee, a high‑water mark and a 20% performance allocation above a specified quarterly threshold.

Compared with typical solo independent advisers, the firm’s profile is notable for sponsoring only wrap accounts, maintaining a relatively large client roster for a one‑advisor practice, and explicitly using borrowing and derivatives in separately managed accounts while serving corporate, institutional and charitable clients. The brochure also discloses the firm’s custody and trade execution relationship with Raymond James and a potential conflict arising from an advisor’s role on a nonprofit finance committee, which the firm says it manages through limited involvement and fiduciary obligations.